Hijacking Windows Live Messenger

Hello, I have been reading trough all the posts to find out why Windows Live
Messenger is getting Hijacked.

Here is my problem, While working in MSN explorer and having Windows Live
Messenger open I will see that Messenger signs out and a popup window shows
up saying that I signed in on another computer. Durning this time the people
in my contact list get a message saying to go to some web site for picture
downloads. I did not send this link and suspect that the Windows Live
Messenger is getting hijacked by a worm on my computer. I have tried to find
it using MacAfee and spyware removal tools, with no luck.

Does anybody know how to get fid or fix this problem?

Short note this is happening with Yahoo messenger also.

Greetings Tom,

Never heard of the Yahoo part of it, although it's possible most people who get these only
have one Messenger client. In general, virus/spyware/worm etc. scanners will *not* find
these simply because there's so many variants and most don't last that long as the websites
change quickly since Microsoft, Yahoo, web site operators start to block them.

Luckily they're pretty easy to remove as they generally operate as single running programs
showing up in the Processes tab in the Task Manager (or other applications like Process
Explorer). All you have to do is figure out what process it is, shut it down and delete it.

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"Tom" <> wrote in message
news:226F0663-3F64-4ECB-B98D-...
> Hello, I have been reading trough all the posts to find out why Windows Live
> Messenger is getting Hijacked.
>
> Here is my problem, While working in MSN explorer and having Windows Live
> Messenger open I will see that Messenger signs out and a popup window shows
> up saying that I signed in on another computer. Durning this time the people
> in my contact list get a message saying to go to some web site for picture
> downloads. I did not send this link and suspect that the Windows Live
> Messenger is getting hijacked by a worm on my computer. I have tried to find
> it using MacAfee and spyware removal tools, with no luck.
>
> Does anybody know how to get fid or fix this problem?
>
> Short note this is happening with Yahoo messenger also.

You'd all be better to go and use Twitter.com - you can tweet with
absolutely anyone in the world if they choose to use it also and many celebs
do as well as politicians and your friends. Easy to use and instant fun..